Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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I think hype is a good thing. You need it and it'll teach you valuable things and you'll grow stronger, which is what I've done.
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Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
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She would watch with glee as Rain was relegated to standing in her shoes; Easter hoped to God they pinched.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.
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I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.
